CMCoE // Unofficial satire. Serious preservation.

Institutional memory // curated public collection

Permanent Contract File

The jokes may be absurd. The records must be accurate.

2021-06-16 // day precision

Choosing along the best-value continuum

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Is this a thing?
Two-button meme: Trade-Offs or LPTA. A sweating contracting officer looks at the best-value continuum.
Approved display derivative
Comment attachment by Andy Knott: Comment meme showing a hand about to hit a blue button labelled Sealed Bidding.
Approved display derivative

Original source (access may be restricted)

Editorial interpretation

A sweating decision-maker faces buttons for Trade-Offs and LPTA. Replies add simplified acquisition procedures and sealed bidding to the joke. The displayed JPEG may be a later Facebook rendition; the 2021 post date does not establish an unchanged upload. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-06-16 — Andy Knott: [Image-only comment; see the associated discussion image above.] 2021-06-16 — Filipp Dietrich Lassman: SAP!! 2021-06-16 — Dan Cary — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread: Filipp Dietrich Lassman I want this gif but with each girl being LPTA and Tradeoff and the guy it zooms in on is SAP. I wish I was better at gifs though. 2021-06-16 — Dan Cary — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread: [Tenor “Beard Kiss” GIF embed; literal embed markup is preserved privately, animation bytes were not captured.] 2021-06-16 — Filipp Dietrich Lassman — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread: Dan Cary that's awesome. 2021-06-18 — Stephanie Perrin Aiken: Can lpta be best value?? I mean do I have to upgrade just because it is proposed?? Lol 2021-06-18 — Dan Cary — reply in Stephanie Perrin Aiken’s thread: COs are given a wide latitude. Make the choices you can afford. Coverage: 7 visible comments retained, including one image-only comment. Embedded reaction GIF bytes not retained; its original embed text is preserved. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, June 2021, source selection, LPTA, tradeoffs, FAR Part 15, sealed bidding